‘God is in control’: Hillsong comforts the flock after founder charged by police | fergushunter Laura_R_Chung
The board of megachurch Hillsong has written to followers after founder Brian Houston was charged by police, offering comfort and criticising media reporting of the pastor’s handling of his late father’s sexual abuse of children.
“As you are aware, this matter has been ongoing since the Royal Commission in 2014 and has been the subject of much media speculation – most of it inflammatory and much of it inaccurate.”The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse found Mr Houston, 67, failed to report Frank Houston’s abuse when his father confessed to it five years before his death. In 2019, police in The Hills district in north-west Sydney launched an investigation into the alleged cover-up.
The email invoked a bible passage: “I lift up my eyes to the mountains—where does my help come from? My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth.”
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